Richard C. Bartone, Professor in the Department of Communication at William Paterson University of New Jersey, teaches a course in Media Representation of Lesbian, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered. He has worked as a documentary film and news archivist for CBS News and served as Senior Associate Editor of the journal Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television.

The queer community has used documentary film to resurrect historical memory and to permit the marginalized to bear witness, as well as to build an image base that reflects our diversity and counters distorted representations.

Anglo-American stage and screen actor and director Charles Laughton scored many triumphs in a distinguished career, but nevertheless suffered for much of his life from self-loathing and internalized homophobia.